THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING Holy Family Church February 21, 2021 The First Sunday of

The Spirit drove out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by . Weekly Intentions Saturday 2/20 4:00pm Elaine Kinzer † Thursday 2/25 8:00am Jacqueline White † Sunday 2/21 9:00am People of Holy Family Friday 2/26 8:00am Kevin & Hilda Monday 2/22 8:00am No Mass McCabe & Family Tuesday 2/23 8:00am No Mass Saturday 2/27 4:00pm People of 2/24 8:30am John, Anna & Aiden Family Esser Sunday 2/28 9:00am Mark Keller † Office Office Hours Confessions 1102 Chestnut St. Monday - Friday Wednesday Thank You Clarkston, WA 99403 8:30am - 4:00pm 9:30-10:30am For Supporting

509-758-6102 Saturday Holy Family School 3:00 - 3:30pm

Scan this QR code with the QR Email: code reader on your phone [email protected] and it will direct you to our parish website. Website: hfparish.com Pastor Pastoral Assistant Parish Office Rev. Jeff Core Danielle Paris Holy Family Staff: [email protected] [email protected] 1002 Chestnut Street School Principal: Sharon Hunt Phone: 509-758-6621 Email: [email protected] Bookkeeper Web Page: holyfamilyclarkston.com Follow us on Facebook and Instagram! If you are in need of a Sheri Sargent meeting with the [email protected] parish staff and are Enrollment 2021--2022 not able to make it up We are pleased to announce open enrollment will begin Monday, February 22nd. Catholic educa- the steps at the parish Parish Hall This Week tion is a blessing and we encourage you to enroll your child(ren). Tuition rates have increased office due to a Friday, February 26th: disability, please call Monday, February 22nd: slightly to offset the rising costs of running a school. Although all of the Diocese of Spokane schools have increased and we will be happy  No Mass  Mass 8:00am teacher and principal salaries by 3%, Holy Family School made the decision to hold all salaries to the 2020-2021 sal- ary schedule. This decision was made taking our families into account and trying to keep the rising costs of educa- to meet with you at the  Ladies Prayer Share Group 8:45am  Soup & Bread 6:00pm in Parish church 758-6102. Hall tion at a minimum for you. We care about all of our families and know that this year has been challenging for many Tuesday, February 23rd: families. In addition, parishioner families are receiving a small break in tuition to honor their contributions of gifts   No Mass 7:00pm in the to Holy Family Parish. Tuition rates are located on our website www.holyfamilyclarkston.com. Special Collections Church Wednesday, February 24th: February - Building Saturday, February 27th: Wine Raffle Winners- Thank you everyone for this wonderful raffle! Maintenance Fund, School  Mass 8:30am & CCD Collection.  Confessions 3:00-3:30 Grand Prize- Lisa Davis  Holy Hour & Confession 1st Prize-Amanda Crosby March -  Mass 4:00pm If you have your weekly/ 9:30-10:30am 2nd Prize- Anni Grieve Sunday, February 28th: monthly donations automati-  Kids Sacrament Classes 3rd Prize- Amber Dickinson cally taken out of your bank 3:30-5:00pm  Mass 9:00am account, here is a list of the  RCIA 6:30pm Power of Annual Appeal “special collections” you may Thank you so much for your support of our Annual Appeal. We have currently received donations of $14,275 out of Thursday, February 25th: not know of. our $30,000 goal. There is still time to donate. Donations can be made online at www.holyfamilyclarkston.com or  Mass 8:00am dropped off at the school. Thank you again for your support.  Bereavement Group 2-3pm in Lent Activities Special Events Week 3 Scott Stapleton  https://bit.ly/37kW6LI 3/23 Blood Drive (Sign up today https://bit.ly/3dfvFLb) God Answers Prayers... Sue Ahlers Brett Stapleton  https://bit.ly/2Nd69eL 4/10 4pm First Communion/Confirmation Mass Tom Harvey Mary Weiss  https://bit.ly/2ZzS2TH with Bishop Daly Week 1 Bob Carpenter Gordon & Delores Rubenthaler 5/22 School Auction Melva Boyle Yvonne Pecora Gloria Nemeth Upcoming Events Sheila McDougall Dick Jacobs Michelle Stapleton 2/24 8:30am Mass (5th grade) Agatha Cumming Sherry Folk Orlan Ranstron If you would like Wessels Family Eileen Jeffreys Dave Massaro Week 2 Jim Kappel someone on the prayer Gene Kaufman Jennifer Bershaw James Chandler chain please provide Palm Burning with Fr. Root Mike Elsensohn Don Fox Betty Riebe Tom Stapleton Dallas Dodd first and last name. Carol Stegner John Kucera Week 4 Thank you! Eleanore Kuther Vivian Piatt Shirley Tillea Gail Anderson Anne Holmes Bob Sheppard We pray for the needs and Bev Appleford Debbie Wilkinson Dona McCann healing of these members, Ally Epling Beth Anderson Gerald Behler friends and family of our community: Please contact Cliff Kauffman Della Rimmelspacher Doug Richardson Cheryl Fuqua at 758-6936, Joan Sperry Cheek Rosemarie Schutte Linda Wolf at 758-6690 or Bernie Rick Jacobs Christina Fox the parish office at Marjorie Hillman Mardi Turner Caleb Parry 758-6102 or email to Lee Wimer Dorothy Nichols Marilyn [email protected] if Janet Forner Victoria Green Connie Riemler you would like someone to Pam Ellis Piper Sandifer & Family Jeremy Purcell be added. What’s Happening at Holy Family? Ministries for Reader Extraordinary Altar Servers Ushers Ministers of Holy Get FORMED! The Catholic Faith on Demand! This Lent, we invite you to journey with Dr. Tim Communion Gray by signing up for FORMED Daily Lenten Reflections at formed.org/lent. Each day you will receive in your SaturdayJune 16/17thVigil Even MonthLinda Kazda Kathy Ross Emma Aceveda Gary Broemeling inbox a short video which features Dr. Gray commenting on the daily Mass readings, explaining the Scriptures, and 4:00pm Paul Carey providing you with concrete ideas on how to apply them to your Christian life. Sign up today for free by visiting formed.org/lent! February 27th Soup and Bread - Everyone is welcome to soup and “We are born to love, we live to love, Sunday James Browitt Lynette Ausman Gabe Arnzen Bob Uptagrafft bread on Fridays during Lent at 6pm in the Parish and we will die to love still more.” And/or Doug Weaver Hall. Stations of the Cross will follow at 7pm in the . 9:00am church. Sponsored by the Catholic Daughters. February 28th Linda Rossiter CRS Rice Bowl - Jesus told us that whatever we did for First Presbyterian Church & Holy Family one of these least brothers of his we did for him. Reflect on Advertiser of the Week Dialogue Series. Join us this the challenge of global hunger - it is a reality for millions of Stewardship: A Way of Life! Thank you for advertising Talent: Lent for a 5 week continued dialogue with Dr. our sisters and brothers. What will you do to support the with us! Karen Petersen Finch, Associate Professor of hungry in our community and around the world? Visit Please help support our Thank you Vern Jefreys, Mike James, and Theology at Whitworth University. This will be crsricebowl.org to learn more. advertisers who make this Bernie Schneider for plowing and shoveling our third dialogue with Dr. Finch and partnering bulletin possible. snow last week at the school and church. We If you would like to advertise with First Presbyterian Church. Dialogues will The Knights of Columbus Scholarship for appreciate you. with us please call Treasure: start on Saturday, February 27th, at 9:30am in the Graduating High School Seniors who will be attending 758-6102 The collection for the week of 2/14/2021: Holy Family Parish Hall and continue until college will be available in the parish office starting this Monday, February 22nd. This scholarship is based Actual: $5,945 March 27th . Our first topic will be “A Presence Appleside Storage of in the Church and World”. Social on leadership, church participation, and community Seek a relationship when you pray, not Distancing will be in place and masks are activities. The deadline for turning in your application Secure Facility and Multiple Sizes answers. You won’t always find answers, encouraged. You can register by calling Danielle is April 26th. Good Luck! 2470 Appleside Blvd at 758-6102 or emailing but you will always find Jesus.” The Ladies Prayer Share and Study Group meets on Clarkston, WA 99403 [email protected]. Mondays at 8:45am in the church hall after morning Richard & Marilyn Wilson Fr. Mike Schmitz Bereavement Group - Holy Family has started a Mass. We will be keeping social distancing and 509-758-2021 support group for people to learn what is normal in sanitizing after our meeting. Please join us! the grief process when you have lost someone you love. We will provide a safe place to share your “Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security, as a consequence, benefits (Proud Parishioners & Supporters of Sunday’s Reading’s thoughts and feelings about loved ones who are gone. Holy Family Parish and School ) Our Bereavement Group will meet each Thursday someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style Reading I: Genesis 9:8-15 during Lent from 2:00-3:00pm in the Church Hall. of the good Samaritan who bent down to his Responsorial Psalm: 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 We will practice social distancing. If you are interested brother in need and took care of him." Do you have questions about our Columbarium, Reading II: 1 Peter 3:18-22 or have more questions please call the parish office at Pavers, or an Automatic Deduction for your : Mark 1:12-15 758-6102 or Arlene Thomas at 208-305-2394. ~ Francis monthly/weekly tithes? Would you like to put Next Sunday’s Reading’s Year of St. Joseph something in the bulletin, OR your phone Reading I: Genesis 9:8-15 number or address has recently changed? Give When does the Year of St. Joseph begin and end? Responsorial Psalm: 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 the parish office a call at 758-6102 we would love The year began Dec. 8, 2020, and concludes on Dec. 8, 2021. Reading II: 1 Peter 3:18-22 to talk to you! What special graces are available during this year? Gospel: Mark 1:12-15 As Catholics pray and reflect on the life of St. Joseph throughout the coming year, they also have opportunities to Holy Family Parish Registration Update (Please Print Clearly) gain a plenary indulgence, or remission of all temporal punishment due to sin. An indulgence can be applied to Name #1 ______Name #2 ______oneself or to a soul in Purgatory. D.O.B. ______D.O.B. ______An indulgence requires a specific act, defined by the Church, as wellas sacramental confession, Eucharistic Address: ______City/State: ______Communion, prayer for the pope’s intentions, and full detachment from sin. Child: ______D.O.B.: ______Special indulgences during the Year of St. Joseph can be received through more than a dozen different prayers and Phone: (___) ______Cell: (___)______Email: ______actions, including praying for the unemployed, entrusting one’s daily work to St. Joseph, performing a corporal or Preferred Method of Weekly Offering: (Please circle one) Envelopes or Automatic Deduction spiritual work of mercy, or meditating for at least 30 minutes on ’s Prayer. Please return with any changes to collection basket, to the parish office, or email to [email protected] Message from Fr. Jeff The Year of the Eucharist 2020-2021 The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist: 21 February 2021 Are the consecrated bread and wine "merely symbols"? First Sunday of Lent In everyday language, we call a "symbol" something that points beyond itself to something else, often to several other realities at once. The transformed bread and wine that are the Body and Blood of Christ are not merely Communion for the Sick and Homebound symbols because they truly are the Body and Blood of Christ. As St. John Damascene wrote: "The bread and wine are not a foreshadowing of the body and blood of Christ—By no means!—but the actual deified body of the Lord, because the Lord Himself said: ‘This is my body'; not ‘a foreshadowing of my body' but ‘my body,' and not ‘a Greetings, foreshadowing of my blood' but ‘my blood'" ( The Orthodox Faith, IV [PG 94, 1148-49]). At the same time, One of the Corporal is to visit the sick. This is especially important during this time however, it is important to recognize that the Body and Blood of Christ come to us in the Eucharist in a sacramental form. In other words, Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine, not in his own proper form. We of pandemic given that the isolation many sick and homebound people experience is magnified and cannot presume to know all the reasons behind God's actions. God uses, however, the symbolism inherent in the intensified by the caution necessary to protect them from further peril. A privilege that we enjoy as eating of bread and the drinking of wine at the natural level to illuminate the meaning of what is being accomplished Catholics is to receive the Body of Christ when we are sick and not able to join in Holy Communion with in the Eucharist through Jesus Christ. There are various ways in which the symbolism of eating bread and drinking the parish community. A vital ministry of outreach is to bring the Holy Eucharist to the sick and to wine discloses the meaning of the Eucharist. For example, just as natural food gives nourishment to the body, so the encourage them with our presence as well. Eucharistic food gives spiritual nourishment. Furthermore, the sharing of an ordinary meal establishes a certain communion among the people who share it; in the Eucharist, the share a meal that brings them into I am always happy to help parishioners bring Holy Communion to family and friends who cannot communion not only with each other but with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Similarly, as St. Paul tells us, the attend Mass because of various barricades to doing so, especially our little virus friend. This mission single loaf that is shared among many during the eucharistic meal is an indication of the unity of those who have allows those who previously would have to go without access to the Sacrament of Sacraments. As this is a been called together by the Holy Spirit as one body, the Body of Christ (1 Cor 10:17). To take another example, the vital ministry, it is of greatest importance to make sure that we do it as well and as perfectly as we can. individual grains of wheat and individual grapes have to be harvested and to undergo a process of grinding or crushing before they are unified as bread and as wine. Because of this, bread and wine point to both the union of the Bringing Holy Communion to a sick family member or friend only has a couple of requirements. many that takes place in the Body of Christ and the suffering undergone by Christ, a suffering that must also be First, the person bringing the Sacrament must be a faithful Catholic in good standing with the Church. This embraced by his disciples. Much more could be said about the many ways in which the eating of bread and drinking means that the person bringing Holy Communion should faithfully attend Mass, should receive the of wine symbolize what God does for us through Christ, since symbols carry multiple meanings and connotations. Sacrament of Reconciliation on a regular basis, and is active in the Life of the Church. Second, the person must understand that they should go directly from the church to the person receiving the Sacrament and not make any stops in between. I will not, and I have instructed the Extraordinary ministers of Holy Working with the Word Communion not to give a host to someone making a visit while Holy Communion is being distributed Focusing the Gospel during the Mass. I ask that anyone making such a visit come to me after Mass to receive the Sacrament for Key words and phrases: Spirit drove, desert, tempted by Satan, proclaiming the gospel of God, This is the the visit. This is so that the Blessed Sacrament does not go into a pocket or purse while Mass continues. time Finally, the visitor must have a proper vessel in which to transport the Blessed Sacrament from the church To the point: There is an urgency to Mark's ' experience in the desert—the Spirit drives Je- to the home. This container is called a PYX and, if you do not have one and need to bring Holy sus into the desert. What happened there? Jesus grappled with being “tempted by Satan,” and in this he em- Communion to someone, we can provide one for you to borrow. braced fully the human reality of struggling to be faithful. Jesus left the desert ready to begin his ministry of proclaiming “the gospel of God.” Jesus had faced his own “this is the time” and said yes. Lent is our desert time It is of vital importance that we remember the Divine nature of the Eucharist. If we relegate the to come to saying a fuller yes to God. Host or the Precious Blood to mere symbols, we demonstrate for the whole world that Christ’s promise to Connecting the Gospel … be with always in the Sacrament has either been broken or that he never really meant it. He gave us the … to the First Reading: In the covenant with Noah God says yes to us and all of creation (see First Reading). gift of his literal Body and Blood so that we can rest in the knowledge that we are never alone, especially in Lent is a time to renew our yes to God and deepen our fidelity to our baptismal covenant (see Second Reading). time that are difficult. Thank you to all of you who offer this important service to others and remember … to experience: Our tendency is to put off dealing with difficult, uncomfortable, challenging tasks. We often that when you are carrying the Eucharist to someone, you are carrying Him to the World. need a push to get going. Lent is the push: “This is the time.”

Sunday Reflection - This Gospel passage takes place immediately after Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan by John. Jesus is sent into the desert and is tempted. It is a great image of what we have to face every day in Blessings, our lives. Our Baptism does not protect us from bad things or difficulties that might arise in our lives. We will, like Jesus, have to deal with tough situations. Our Baptism give us the strength to face these difficult situation because we have been given new life in the Spirit. Our faith invites us to trust that not matter Fr Jeff what we face during the course of living our lives, God will be with us, even among any “wild beasts.” When Jesus leaves the desert, he proclaims the Gospel. How do you proclaim the Good News, even on a bad day? Jesus is with us, and always will be, and he wants us to do everything we can to be with him. When we repent and turn back to God by believing in the Gospel, we are saying to Jesus that we want to be with him. What does this mean for you today? How will you use this Lent to become closer to Jesus?